PixelShinobi Troubleshooting Finder
The PixelShinobi Troubleshooting Finder page in Tools: run the automated search, use manual troubleshooting mode, or grab debug info.
Your site broke after an update, and the advice is always the same: deactivate all your plugins, then turn them back on one by one until it breaks again. On a site with 20 or 30 plugins, that is an afternoon of tedious clicking — on your live site.
PixelShinobi Troubleshooting Finder does that search for you, and does it safely:
Troubleshooting mode that only affects you. PixelShinobi Troubleshooting Finder turns plugins off for your browser only, using a private session. Your visitors keep seeing the real site, exactly as it is now. The mode switches itself off after an hour, there is always an exit button in the admin bar, and a break-glass link ends it even if wp-admin itself is broken. You cannot get stuck.
An automated search (bisect), not one-by-one testing. Tell PixelShinobi Troubleshooting Finder which page breaks, and it tests half your plugins at a time — the way a binary search works. Twenty plugins take at most about 8 checks instead of 20 rounds. You watch each step happen, and the search survives page reloads and slow hosting because it runs one small step per request.
A plain-English verdict. Every search ends with one honest answer:
- This plugin is the problem — proven by a test with that plugin active on its own.
- It is not a plugin — the problem happens even with everything off, so look at the theme or the server.
- It needs a combination — no single plugin is to blame; PixelShinobi Troubleshooting Finder shows the smallest set of plugins that breaks the page together.
- Could not reproduce — the page worked with everything on, so the problem is intermittent or already fixed.
Debug info that is safe to share. One click builds the bundle every support forum asks for — WordPress and PHP versions, theme, active plugins — with email addresses, file paths, IP addresses and tokens already removed, ready to paste into a support thread.
PixelShinobi Troubleshooting Finder never changes your real plugin list, never switches your live theme, and never phones home. Everything happens on your own site.